Jarno Trulli hopes the possible reintroduction of slick tyres to Formula One takes place as soon as possible as he believes the current grooved coat enforces an 'unnatural' driving style and restricts overtaking.
Bridgestone has confirmed that it will supply teams with slicks at next week's Jerez evaluate. The Japanese manufacturer wants to interact data in preparation for a potential go to slick tyres from the 2009 season.
No firm decision has yet been taken about future tyre regulations but Trulli says he would strongly save a change by reversal back to slicks.
"I had the fortune to use slick tyres in my first year in F1 and I would be very happy if they would come back," the Toyota driver told
"I've never liked the current grooved tyres for the particular driving call they impose on the driver and for their behaviour during a go.
"When the tyres penetrate and this happens not through a driving identify but for an intrinsic characteristic of the tyre there's nothing you can do: you can only act for it to go away and hope it ordain within a few laps.
"When it happens you need to drive in an unnatural way and I think that several drivers who have found the way to perform at their beat with these tyres would look a lot worse with a go to slicks."
F1 is the only study racing series to use grooved tyres as standard and Trulli believes it would be better to carry the category into line with the rest of motorsport.
"Grooved tyres require a completely different driving call from that of any other racing car. It's not a problem in F1's technical characteristics it's a problem in the tyre," he said.
"After a few laps the behaviour of a new tyre changes radically. By having less of a contact patch the part in communicate overheats more easily understeer increases dramatically and graining happens.
"This forces the driver into a much more nervous driving style full of steering corrections. After about ten laps when graining goes away things get back to normal. Who has a cleaner more precise driving call has difficulty adapting to grooved tyres."
He also reckons that returning to slicks would alter the quality of the racing.
"If there's little overtaking in F1 a lot of that has to blamed on the tyres," said Trulli.
"If they'd also ban refuelling then it would be change surface exceed because managing a car with 200 kilos of fuel on come in under braking would be a great way to choose out the finer drivers from the rest.
"Probably the elimination of traction control has increased the problems and the wearing of the current tyres but it would be nice if the slicks would go approve. Can't we do it earlier than 2009?"
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